Looking for historical Supreme Court cases? There are a few different sources to use to find them:

• Westlaw -- search the SCT-OLD database that includes full-text cases from 1780 to 1945.

• Findlaw has Supreme Court Decisions from 1893 to present via http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html. You can browse either the U.S. Reports volume number or the year of publication. You can also search by citation, party name or full text. However, it is important to note that Findlaw will include only the full text cases that actually have an opinion issued by the Supreme Court -- it will NOT include the Decisions Per Curiam, Decisions Granting Certiorari, Decisions Denying Certiorari, etc. Decisions are in html format.

• Federal Legal Information Through Electronics or FLITE is produced by FedWorld. FLITE contains the full text of 7,407 U.S. Supreme Court Decisions from 1937 to 1975. This range covers volumes 300 through 422 of the U.S. Reports. You can search by either key words or case names. If you do a case name search, remember that party names get reversed in the appeals process. Try reversing the party names if your search doesn't work the first time. Decisions are in ASCII text.

• Legal Information Institute (LLI) from Cornell University also has a selective collection of historic U.S. Supreme Court decisions as part of the Supreme Court Collection. LLI's historic database contains just over 600 of the Court's most important decisions from the founding of the court up to present day. This service is browsable by topic, party name or opinion author. There is also a keyword search engine that is accessible once you are on the "By Topic" or "By Party Name" page. When you have selected a case, you can view either the syllabus, the full decision or the syllabus & opinions only.